EVANSVILLE, Ind. Police say an Evansville man held his ex-girlfriend and her son against their will for six hours, beating the woman, cutting her hair and forcing her into sex.

Willie Charles Steverson was being held without bond Thursday in Vanderburgh County Jail on preliminary charges including criminal confinement, sexual deviate conduct, battery and possession of methamphetamine.

The Evansville Courier & Press reports the woman told police Steverson took her and her 8-year-old son to a house where he beat her, choked her until she passed out and cut two to three feet of her hair while she was unconscious while her son watched TV downstairs.

When her son tried to intervene, police say Steverson beat the boy. After the boy returned downstairs, Steverson allegedly forced the woman to perform oral sex.